This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach it's new owner. The first autonomous vehicle delivery of it's kind in the world.
Really awesome. I can’t imagine this will be the new normal, but it’s a record and achievement on its own. Coast-to-coast, when?
Getting your brand new car delivered with 1000 miles and dings.
I doubt they’d let it drive cross-country, that’s very inefficient because it would need to charge etc. Probably drive it with a truck to the cities and let the cars drive themselves from there.
The one time I’ve bought a brand new car the handover was a simple “unveiling” + a thorough walkthrough of everything worth knowing about the car. Hardly necessary, but was nice. While this seems fancy, it also seems impersonal. But it’s probably an upgrade over Teslas normal “there’s the parking lot, the car that unlocks for you is yours - go fish” delivery.
Always the Debbie downer
Idk. In this case it’s kind of the reality of it all. They need to at least keep the front protection film on the front fascia and hood to prevent rock chips. I know I wouldn’t mind if the car was delivered with around 100 miles on the odometer from my nearest delivery center, but I imagine some people would.
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we’re a long way away from Tesla refusing to let you take delivery at a service center.
Well the problem is that autonomous charging stops are difficult. I mean I guess you could "staff" supercharger locations between big cities who's job is to charge up Teslas en route to the customer(should still be massively cheaper than the logistics of delivery off a truck. But yeah I would assume this will be a thing around Tesla Locations as Hubs for quite a while before we can see deliveries from the factory to I don't know Maine.
I could easily see it be normal if you’re within an hour or two from the factory.
I just really want it to pick me up from the airport. 🤷
Can’t wait for my 2018 HW3 model 3 to be this good as promised years ago . Appreciating asset here I come !
No Parking, Fire Lane.
Coast-to-coast by end of 2017 (as stated on Autonomy day in Oct 2016). I wonder why they sat on the functionality for 8 years :)
Another member of team 2018 HW3 here who has his fingers crossed that Tesla will treat us right.
This ⬆️ Like summon , it’s a cool demo but not something that’ll be used all the time . Maybe when they can prove they’ve stopped teleoperation and removed safety drivers ?
https://x.com/tesla/status/1938905507097461237?s=46&t=DJmv2YLmRbUb4ElSRE6fow Full 30 minute drive just posted At timestamp 18:48... Just Austin things? Lol
> Probably drive it with a truck to the cities and let the cars drive themselves from there. Hopefully with an autonomous Tesla semi, not a diesel truck as done today.
Tesla mechanical turk: Just give people charging discounts for plugging in autonomous cars stopping to charge while they’re sitting around waiting for their own car to charge. Honestly seems like one of the easier problems to solve.
Wow, my 2019 S that I bought with FSD can’t make it out of my neighborhood safely so this is gonna be awesome when all of a sudden this garbage works Edit: /s. It’s not going to work
cross continent when? 😆
Yeah ruined the whole thing.
Depends if you want to save on a $1,900 delivery fee or just have some miles on it. Every car gets dings.
It did work. So you might be a basement dweller without a Tesla.
Edit, it did work and you do t have a Tesla. Jelly
Yup, first thing I thought as well. Not a great video to share if you’re trying to show how competent the process is.
Tesla is finishing induction charging for Cybercab, that should be enough for future models :)
So I guess the camera calibration process is no longer necessary or already done at the factory?
I'd be pretty pissed if my new Tesla was delivered with 2,000 miles already on the odometer. Put it on a truck.
Man, I would love to see my future Model 3 just roll into my driveway
2 weeks….
They will likely continue to deliver them to your local service center via truck or rail like they do today. This only really makes sense as a last mile solution.
It’s done on the assembly line. That’s how they’re able to drive autonomously to the outbound lot.
I can imagine tesla stock going to rocket up another 100 on this news
1) it has MFG plates so is it truly a customer car? 2) what’s that bump above the windshield?
2018 HW3 Model 3 also checking in. I use FSD daily on my commute. Hoping we get another hardware upgrade.
Is that really an issue if the car isn't unattended? I thought the point of fire lanes was just that you need to have that space clear for the fire trucks if the building starts on fire, not that you can't even stop there for a second to pick up a passenger.
I use it frequently on road trips . Can’t wait till it stops occasionally trying to get me arrested or killed . Simultaneously amazing yet peppered with frustration .
Wireless charging will solve that problem. Also they won't be getting all delivered autonomously from the factory. This will be mostly to solve the expensive last mile problem. So they will be dropped off to a central location and then the cars will drive off to their scheduled deliveries probably with in 50 miles or something.
Why would they have it drive 2k miles, would make more sense that there's a delivery center or store within 50m of you and that's where they get dropped of then drive to the customer from.
Who cares when, just be glad it’s happening at all
It’s not parked. Hazards are on
It need MFG plates because it's not a customers car until they accept delivery. It's also driving autonomously, it can only do that with plates by the manufacturer or autonomous vehicle operator at the moment. above the windshield are cameras, the ones they used to record the interior of the drive.
They literally said, this would be better than a truck. All the discussions about needing to supercharge along the delivery route, assume not using a semi to send to a local center.
At some point they're either going to have to refund our money or do a serious upgrade. It might take a class action lawsuit but I think it will eventually happen.
So the customer gets to keep MFG plates then? Or Tesla staff needs to be there at delivery to reclaim the plates? Or the buyer needs to go return the MFG plates to Tesla? That defeats the entire purpose. Why would they mount an interior camera on the outside? The camera clearly isn’t outside because there’s no reflections from the glass and the roof glass is way too dark anyways to get those types of images in the video.
Clearly the world wasn’t ready for it yet.
This is going to justify gigafactories across the country and boost local economies with new jobs!
Tesla can include a pre paid envelope to just put in your mailbox to send the plates back....... I dont think that defeats the purpose...
Yeah…. Good luck with that. Lots of people are going to want to keep the MFG plates. Either as a souvenir or to use nefariously on unregistered vehicles.
Pretty neat!
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And then Tesla charges them out the ass for stealing them. This isn’t a hard problem to solve.
Rail, have it loaded vertically (like a regular car) on a rail car, ship it "close".
Meanwhile I’m still waiting for mine to go 5 over the speed limit with fsd
Believe it or not, dip.
'22 MYP HW3 here. Just drove 1,200 miles from Southern California to Washington. The amount of times it slammed on the brakes and swerved for dark skid marks on the highway was too high. Maybe it was just trying to keep me on my toes.
Right. Think inventory cars. I bought my M3 and drove about an hour to pick it up at the SC. With autonomous delivery, it could have been just sent to my home 😃. This would be cool for after your car has been serviced too. Once service is complete, they could just send it back to you.
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This isn't very convenient for the customer having to ship back the plate, which is an issue that did not exist before.
You can’t drop off an envelope in a mail Box on your way to work/home?
Factory -> Distribution Hub Could be a rail yard, could be an old mall. Cars unloaded, then or later cars given their instructions, cars drive off. This is a last mile solution to labor opex, not the soul solution to the entire problem.
paper tags. think more. post less.
This is cool, but if my car can drive itself to the repair center and back I’ll be very happy.
That's an extremely optimistic take
So, it is really nice to see this coming along, but I do have to point out that it was driving in the left lane while not passing quite a bit of the time, which is one of the main things that makes me not use FSD on multi-lane roads. It wasn't so bad when you could turn on minimize lane changes on EVERY SINGLE TRIP. Am I the only one who does not like cruising along slower than the flow of traffic hogging the left lane while watching everybody else have to weave around me? And of course bumping up the max speed doesn't actually change the speed it decides to drive at, even if it has the speed limit wrong.
Why wouldn’t the customer be able to choose if they want autonomously delivery or not? We choose if we want to pick it up or have someone drive it to us already.
*The future is already* here – it's just *not* very *evenly distributed*
During and just post covid they had employees driving them out and ubering back to the service centers. I don't know if they'll actually do this, but there's no reason they couldn't continue to use the big trucks to deliver to service centers and then let the car do the last part on its own.
Imagine this pulling up. The panel gaps are fucked and you tell it to return itself and it makes a sad sound and drives off
This used to be much more annoying before FSD was updated to leave the left lane when a car approached from behind faster than your current speed. Now it’s less of an issue in my opinion. I agree that left lane should be used for passing and driving faster than flow of traffic. I believe laws are different in different states too.
A problem that did not exist before.
Now do it without the chase cars. Funny how this happens right after they figured out how to remote control the cars to fake their taxi demo.
I wonder what the protocol in place is if the car arrives with a chip on the bumper or windshield, or something to that effect. I suppose you just reject the delivery?
The market isn't even open today
Maybe they can rollout Super Smart Summon where it can be further than 300 feet away and you don’t have to hold onto the button.
Worth it imo.
I'm surprised they resisted the urge to use "Knight Rider" musical theme.
Yeah, it is legal to drive 10mph under the speed limit in the left lane where I live. It is just incredibly antisocial.
Why bitch about the timeline? It's not like every other car manufacturer has solved this and Tesla are playing catch up. Can't we just be impressed that this is happening at all with consumer level hardware that you can buy today?
Nah bro. Fsd was the easy part. Figuring out how to swap mfg plates for customer plates is the 3-body problem. Sharp eye op smh
Even if it takes 5 years, I can totally imagine sending the car off for a service appointment, maybe even getting a loaner delivered the same way.
you obviously don't drive one, nothing it did in the video that my 2023 MYLR can't do
spent 70k with 10k FSD on my intel MYP don’t get this kind of feature.
Yeah , I hear ya . I regularly do 900 mi to see family and without fail it complains about the dark , freaks out because of rain and sometimes freaks out because of the sun . It helps with fatigue but that random blaring alarm with red hands of death are jarring .
Delivering from the delivery center to the home makes a lot of sense, no way they'd be able to do it from further than charging range any time soon
And it feels like the risk of chips, acceptable wear on the car, etc are going to keep it truck-first car-last up to an hour or whatever. Our service center gets very backed up sometimes - they get a lot of cars in and they have very limited parking so I'm sure they'd be delighted if the cars just scooted off and became somebody else's problem.
I am impressed ! Really , it’s awesome that these cars are almost self driving . And the fact that they can do that for only 8-15$ on 40k vehicles is even better. I’m also disappointed at the unkept promises and constant watering down of expectations. Many will see their cars in landfills before their car drives itself as promised , why wouldn’t that be expected to generate disappointment - having paid for something they didn’t get ?
They will treat us right or there will most definitely be a class action lawsuit.
I read somewhere that HW3 and HW4 aren’t all that compatible re-wiring might be needed . Might be best to give a discount on the next vehicle .
Sure, I'll accept 50% off my next Tesla.
I’m hopeful it will work but keep in mind they have teleoperation. That’s not exactly unsupervised FSD. Again, they’re doing great but we have to separate marketing from the truth. They’re almost there on HW4 so likely HW5 or 6 will be the iteration that nails it (with bumper camera and radar or lidar - Something to handle less than perfect weather )
Yes better than a truck for last mile, Tesla used to deliver cars to each person by sending the person driving the car and a following car to take their driver back. They stopped doing that cause it was costly then they started driving bulk of cars to each place, then decided everyone will pick up their cars at the service center. This beats that. They will distribute to a local Tesla service center or hub, check for any issue and off it goes to its customer. The people who live near the factories will have their car delivered right from the factory line. They might even make it so that you can schedule delivery through your app to an address within range and just meet your car there. This opens up so many options.
:) , I would too but honestly if they’d let me transfer FSD and FUSC along with a 10k discount , I could see than working out . I know some may prefer the upgrade but many might just take a new car for ~20k after discount and trade-in.
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They don’t. Latency doesn’t allow for it for normal driving. Keep in mind I have been using FSD for about 4 years and fully understand what it can do. It just demonstrated it can run level 5. Car drove itself from the factory to the customer. Magic
News was out before market close on Friday, stock still closed in the red and dropped a little in AH.
> I’m also disappointed at the unkept promises and constant watering down of expectations. Many will see their cars in landfills before their car drives itself as promised , why wouldn’t that be expected to generate disappointment - having paid for something they didn’t get ? And I completely understand. That's a perfectly reasonable position to have. I just get a bit fed up with all the people who see Tesla make progress and then roll out the typical bandwagon load of tired old complaints. /r/technology is a complete dumpster fire in that regard, for instance. Yes it's late. Yes it's been more difficult than Musk expected. Yes Musk is a bit of a twat. But also, look what the Tesla engineers have actually achieved. Look what they're starting to deliver to customers. They're getting there with one of the hardest problems in the AI space that is being solved by anyone today.
I’ll have to find it but they’ve been posting jobs for low-latency teleoperation engineers . Also, I doubt they could get green lit for that without a track record with safety drivers etc. Still a cool achievement and very impressive but there’s a way to go is all I’m saying .
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I hear ya , I’m glad they’re not giving up and letting China run away with it . Fingers crossed we’ll get HW5 upgrades , that would go a long way!
Good thing it wasn’t raining!
Have you considered there might be something wrong with your car specifically?
Cars can be parked with hazards on
Without fail? Because that's what needs to happen. You can't have 10% of your cars going into lakes and ditches on their way home. Teslas disengage about 1:440 miles on average, more or less. Hard to say since they hide the data. That's not safe enough to do this, and also, Tesla doesn't have authorization to let their cars drive on Texas roads without drive monitoring, sooooo.... And of course I don't drive a white supremacy symbol. Don't be silly!
I spent -70k on my 2021 model y with FSD and I've been using more often from last one year or so, it is great on highways but can't really drive on local roads..it's longway to go. one step at a time and imo autonomous wont be ready prior 2030 for both policy and tech fronts. I suspect tesla going to miss Q2 deliveries by huge and these robotaxi hype to keep the stock buoyed
I hope they will retrofit all HW3 cars with HW5
As a software engineer familiar with how many lies are behind most “demos” in this industry — especially under a tight deadline from a crazy CEO I wouldn’t put it past the Tesla AI team to have programmed this thing to combine “FSD as good as it can” with “follow the camera cars”
They’ll refund you a portion of the price paid for FSD.
They need to drive with the MFG plates now. In the future, it will arrive with normal license plates. No one ever had to worry about this kind of stuff yet, so they will need to change the law sooner or later.
They will do it without chase cars eventually. What kind of propaganda is needed to make people dismiss technological miracles just because of pure hate?
2017.
This is from the factory in Austin to the Fifteen15 South Lamar Apartments. It took a longer route with city streets, maybe due to traffic, but more likely to show off city driving. 20+ minutes on the freeway is a bit boring. I live here, and would have taken this route: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/qKSAQYindwjQtCvc8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/qKSAQYindwjQtCvc8) The route it took: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/3bwsa2JE4oNJtsyS8](https://maps.app.goo.gl/3bwsa2JE4oNJtsyS8) which is Montopolis > Oltorf > S Congress > Live Oak > Mary > Evergreen > S Lamar, if I mapped it correctly.
The reddit levels of denial are pretty incredible. Before the video was released the "Self Driving Cars" sub was all "if there's no video it didn't really happen." Now they're all "well because there were chase cars taking video it's not really unsupervised." It's like some bizarre "schrodinger's cat"/quantum physics theory of autonomy. The car is not autonomous if someone is watching, but if no one is watching we can't know it's autonomous!
lol more like the screen tells you to to get fucked
> “follow the camera cars” Did you even watch the video? It's not following another car. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they chose a route that they knew FSD would handle fairly well. And obviously it was still being remotely monitored with the ability to intervene if necessary. But to compare this to a scripted demo is a little disingenuous unless you believe they also fabricated the entire 30 minute video of it autonomously driving "in the wild" on public roads.
It wouldn’t. Because it doesn’t make sense for anyone involved, including Tesla. Normally, you would get your car at a dealer or Service Center. That means that you, as the customer, can verify that your vehicle is in good order. If there is a defect, you can refuse delivery and make them fix it. If the car is delivered to your house remotely, that isn’t the case anymore. Now it’s on you to find the problems, notify Tesla, and ask for them to get your car to get it fixed. That isn’t desirable, and buying a vehicle happens rarely enough that cutting the entire duration down by a couple of hours isn’t that relevant. For Tesla, the same thing holds. There is a ton of added liability. Should something happen to the car, and even a perfect self driving system could see the vehicle be damaged by other drivers or just by random debris, Tesla would be liable. While that also happens during normal transport, unless you’re close to a factory that transport would also happen. There is the added problem of only some vehicles being able to do it, probably. It just doesn’t make sense to do it that way. There is only one reason why they have done it, and why you’re seeing videos of it everywhere. And that’s PR. Tesla are desperate, and this is good PR. It’s a publicity stunt and little more.
>what’s that bump above the windshield? GoPro camera mount.
Woah! Tesla have a vehicle with a 1000 mile range now!!!!! cooooool.
Plus the only chase car is a Cybertruck weaving around between lanes on the highway to get various angles of the Model Y. Hardly providing any form of secret cues to the Model Y (as if FSD would take such cues in any meaningful way anyway). And before anyone accuses the white car at the start of being a lead car, it too is autonomously driving, though to elsewhere on the factory property. Bringing up politics reveals the real motivation for their saltiness.
Dan O must be irate
I'm guessing you bought a fairly early MYP? Maybe 2021? If so, its definitely a bummer for you, but it's still quite impressive how much prices have dropped.
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I believe you can already set the option to not hold the button now.
But if it's not in park it's not parked
It's not just Reddit, it's the whole world. I really wonder where this hate comes from. I am starting to suspect that there is something bigger in play. There are so many companies, even countries, that would go bankrupt if Tesla solved self driving, and I can imagine at least some of them are trying to control the narrative, and hopefully sabotage Tesla so much that it will go out of business before they succeed. It's hard to believe that everyone would hate this company just because of some missed predictions from their CEO.
My Juniper had to calibrate when I picked it up.
Unlikely, since then all the HW4 owners would put their hand out for an upgrade too.
It looks like HW4 is enough to run the FSD, maybe not, but it looks like there is a chance. HW3, maybe eventually the model will be so efficient that HW3 will be enough, but more likely they will just need to offer a retrofit
If it’s the ones coming out of the Austin factory, it’s basically a non-issue now. Fremont still has some issues but it’s night-and-day compared to 2020, let alone 2017. Sure there’s definitely anecdotal evidence, but by and large, they’re way better now
With manufacturer plates….
Then where did all the exterior footage come from 😉 I have a 2018 model 3 with FSD. I’m aware that it’s quite capable. But Tesla has a history of faking demos like this. And especially under high pressure deadline from high-as-a-kite Elon..? I’ve been in the software industry long enough to know not to believe everything at face value.
It was a joke
My ultimate use case is I want my car to meet me at the end of my bike ride. Hoping to do a ride across America camping in my car in this fashion. Need that HW3 upgrade. The silence is deafening.
2019 here. FSD is gonna keep me in this car a long time
How often is the term 3-body problem used? Never heard the term until the show.
I find it often used to generally describe a chaotic system or an under constrained problem. E.g. you can control delivering the car with mfg plates and providing temp plates. But you can’t control what the customer will do after that. Ergo, you can’t predict the outcome. It was meant to be tongue in cheek tho
Yeah I was thinking why did it exit over there, way too early. I think even it caught cybertruck by surprise too. It was filming it until it exited. Not the way I would take, but did notice this past Friday the traffic was horrendous. Assuming it happened on Friday.
Same
Exterior footage came from the Cybertruck that was stalking it until it made it the turn off the freeway.
I fail to see the utility or even novelty of this manuever
Can't wait to see one of these launch itself across a speed hump because it doesn't know what to do in those situations.
Sure Wireless charging could solve this. I remain unconvinced of Wireless charging as a whole though. The Losses are significant. Over the years almost loss less charging claims keep popping up but I don't see wide adoption happening soonish. But yeah around Tesla Locations which can serve as hubs as you say will work well.
Eventually.
Might depend on the factory.
Set your max speed offset to +20%. That should help.
I was wondering if this is even street legal to do. A quick search shows that Texas has allowed fully autonomous vehicles since 2017, but only under certain conditions; these conditions include that the car be registered and titled (it’s not clear here whether the paperwork was done in advance) and as of September that a state permit be obtained.
This is not cell phone wireless charging, the losses can be as low as 3%, look up The Limiting Factors video on wireless charging. There's companies already doing it with high 90%'s
Later this year 😂😂😂
Man, they actually got it working. That's pretty awesome.
I understand how the technology works. And it hasn't manifested as very efficient yet. It's one company witricity that has written a White paper that says that is possible to get to 93% efficiency. Aka they haven't even achieved that in a lab. It really boggles my mind how that one whitepaper got carried through the EV Media so widely. Not to mention the real world. And the fact that phone charging is quite lossy is really a bad start. The same problems apply. The car being not perfectly placed above the charging pad(or rotated slightly) can make a massive difference in efficiency as does the air gap. In conclusion show it to me working at that efficiency in the real world and I'll believe it.
More likely, it depends on the software. FSD supervised still needs the full passive calibration, Robotaxi can do active calibration while it drives itself.
3% of 120kW are still 3 space heaters on high. --- Also, those 3% require very precise positioning of the coils; even a slightly different air pressure in the tyres will throw the efficiency off. This then means that the stationary coil needs to be motorised with at least 4 motors (3 in tripod configuration for height and angles, one side-to-side, the car can handle back-and-forth, and rotation probably can be handled by the car coming in straight). At that point, there's no advantage against a "plug a plug in bot" anymore.
They have achieved that beyond the lab, they have them in demo vehicles, it's infrastructure that's the main hold point, the difference here is that Tesla is absorbing the infrastructure cost as well as development. No other auto manufacturer see's this as making sense to their bottom lines and as a benefit for their customers as they all tend have a bigger gas vehicle business. I think BMW is the only other big auto that owns a wireless car tech stack, they barley sell EVs, so it's not at the point where it makes business sense to even build it out or even offer it to customers, the take volume will be extremely low. Tesla on the other hand is their own customer, RoboTaxi, CyberCab, and their entire vehicle lineup with customers and fleet operators of future RoboTaxis as well as their party if they are willing to license it. Tesla has the proper volume day one as with the others they would have to make it make sense and it probably will only make sense to sell the tech as a purchaseable package to the self driving companies. None of them are at volume for this to make sense, Waymo is getting by just fine with humans charging their vehicles. They probably also wouldn't want to add cost to an already expensive system where the gains are either not yet quantifiable or won't make a dent at the moment. Again watch The Limiting Factor video on this on YT.
Of course once FSD becomes competent, this is exactly what WILL happen. Tesla can have Robots at its service centre and really drive down the cost of repairs.
Trucks are always better for going to distro hub, as otherwise u are burning tyres for a new car, and making it dirty.
Musk will keep pushing this, irrespective of liability, because once its achieved, u can reduce lot of cost and make CE better.
$8,000 destination fee
Very cool
Let’s just ignore it parked in a fire lane 💀
Yes that's the claim made in the video that there theoretical possiblity to match or be just under cable charging at certain speeds. Again, watch the video and see the state of the art currently, all these short comings that you bring up are accounted for. This is a very real reality, it just needs volume and a bit of ingenuity to make it happen, Tesla is the only company operating in NA to make it make sense.
Please provide a source for that and no a youtube video without any underlying source for information is not prove. It's mere Speculation. It's like me providing this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1f9ty29/wireless\_ev\_charging\_science\_fiction\_or\_current/](https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1f9ty29/wireless_ev_charging_science_fiction_or_current/) You might not believe these either but they are just as credible as the person making youtube videos(no underlying source, no proof of expertise, just claims on the internet) I think you are muddying the discussion here a bit. This was about wireless charging. The entire rest of your comment doesn't make any sense in this context. I am not arguing that EVs are pointless or somehow not the next chapter of transportation technology they definitely are. But Wireless charging hasn't manifested a similar significance yet. And I have yet to see any evidence that it will be replacing wired charging any time soon.
The Limiting Factor, is one of the more astute channels, sites his sources and uses research papers and comments from the companies and teams directly if he can reach them, no sponsored videos by companies except for one that basically his financier, works with colleges and research teams to keep his info as accurate as possible, does corrections when needed etc. if you want to ignore it then that's on you.
He hasn't done that in the video you indicated. Or rather I think his words were "this is proprietary I can only guess how" after just repeating witricities claims.
What if it goes more often than you’d like and you keep getting a bill for extra routine cleanings/maintenance?
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Yeah, there’s always someone at that intersection, bought a homeless dude a slice of za from the 7Eleven once and we talked about our old homes up north for a while, cool guy
Let me repeat my primary concern again: > 3% of 120kW are still 3 space heaters on high. or 3.6 kW of energy wasted as heat. Or 11 kW at 360 kW. Or, every time you fully charge a Model Y, you waste as much energy as if you were running a space heater for an hour and 20 minutes.
The waste isn't as important if you are running at scale and have solar or other abundant energy sources. Especially if the loss is outweighed by the earning potential. You spend $1 to make $50 that $1 "loss" cost is less relevant, either way your arm chair calculation means nothing in the grand scheme, Tesla has figured out a way that they believes works for them. They teased it in two images and announced it with the CyberCab, the Cybertruck already has the connectors present and I'd bet if someone did a full teardown of the new Juniper Model Ys you might find the same ability to connect a wireless charger. Also it's highly unlikely they will run the chargers at that high of kW charging as the loss drops tremendously when you charge at home rates/speeds with this, there's a sweet spot and they may get better rates over time. Look whatever your gripe is, give it 3 years and I'm willing to bet it will be a product in use at high yield, I predict tlit will hit Robotaxi first. Time will tell. Oh and also you already waste about that much energy supercharging, so the loss is a wash.
But totally ok for UPS and Amazon trucks? They block my bike lane that has "NO STOPPING" signs, and they have human drivers. Give us a break.
Yeah, on my bike I ignore all the UPS and Amazon trucks parked in fire lanes and bike lanes that say "NO STOPPING". But they're human drivers, so totally ok?
A real-world demonstration of a fully-autonomous car negotiating streets and freeways and parking lots and such for 30 minutes?
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